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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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First Cyclus<br />

"To he disinterested in everything, but above all in love and<br />

friendship, was my supreme wish, my maxim, my practice;<br />

hence my daring expression at a later period: 'If I love thee,<br />

what is that to thee?' sprang directly from my heart."<br />

Goethe's Truth and Poetry, Boo\ 14<br />

Coronation<br />

Oh songs of mine! beloved songs of mine,<br />

Up, up! and don your armor.<br />

And let the tmmpets blare.<br />

And lift upon your shield<br />

This youthful maiden<br />

Who now shall reign supreme<br />

Over my heart, as queen!<br />

Hail! hail! thou youthful queen!<br />

From the sun above<br />

I snatch the beaming red gold.<br />

And weave therewith a diadem<br />

For thy consecrated head.<br />

From the fluttering azure-silken canopy of heaven.<br />

Where blaze the diamonds of night,<br />

A precious fragment I cut:<br />

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